It's springtime, and I'm sitting in my garden enjoying the brief sunshine and 17ºC, I'm hoping to get one of those 'tan' things I've heard so much about.
Web Programming: Still adding things to Twizzlescape. Twitter have just released 'Anywhere' which is VERY good news, as currently if twizzlescape is used by more than 10 people at a time, it can put quite a load on my web server, slowing things down, but when 'Anywhere' is fully released, I'll be able to move the workload onto the user's computer (Javascript). I won't go into the boring technical details here, but twizzlescape will do a lot more communicating with twitter's servers directly, rather than go through my web server, so 100s or 1000s of tweeple could use it at the same time without any load problems. I've already implemented the available 'Anywhere' API, hovering your mouse over a @screenname in a tweet will pop up the users profile details, doesn't seem like much but, my server is doing nothing at all to do that, its all twitter+Javascript.
CG Animation/Machinima: Just got to add a little more dialogue to 'Duleks' Episode 5, then I can start making it and email the script off to the voice actors. As no one has even auditioned for the role of 'abdul' I'm going to voice act it myself! Eeeek, hope I can pull off a decent accent. It needs to be a modern day british/indian 20-something accent, rather than a Deepak Chopra style accent. Do hope I don't offend anyone with my acting or this episode, it's intended to make you laugh, and ridicule terrorist stereotyping, and has what I think is a very funny ending.
Other stuff and things: The new Doctor Who season is bloody fantastic!!! Well, the episodes written by Steven Moffat are. The Dalek episode last week was pretty good, but it didn't have me gripping the arms of my chair throughout, like an episode written by "The Moff" © 2010 Johnnie Ingram :-) Also, as Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) pointed out, the new daleks "..look like furious crayons". Not at all menacing.
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